Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, April 6th, 2020 and I'm the

host of the show Kara Santa Maria. Now this week we're going to be having a really great

chat with an astrobiologist who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory but

before we do that I want to thank those of you who have made

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